Rate My Professor Ken Hodge

Professor Ken Hodge is a Professor in sport and exercise psychology at the School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Otago, New Zealand. He holds an MS from Montana State University and a PhD from the University of Illinois, USA, and joined the University in 1988. His research examines the psycho-social effects of sport participation, including motivational orientations, prosocial and antisocial behaviour, athlete burnout and engagement, lifeskill development through sport, self-esteem and moral development, motivational climates in elite teams, and sport psychology consultant effectiveness. He has collaborated internationally with researchers such as Chris Lonsdale, Elaine Hargreaves, Lee-Ann Sharp, Tom Raedeke, Sue Jackson, Steve Danish, and Tamotsu Nishida, as well as coaches from the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby Team. Hodge developed a New Zealand version of the GOAL LifeSkills Programme, contributed to the SUPER programme (Sports United for the Promotion of Education and Recreation), and served as a foreign cooperating investigator for a Japanese PE LifeSkills Programme. As a mental skills trainer, he worked with elite New Zealand athletes at the 1990, 1994, and 1998 Commonwealth Games, 1992 Summer Olympics, 2006 Winter Olympics, New Zealand Colts Rugby (2002-2005), Highlanders Super 14 Rugby Team (2010), Silver Ferns Netball (2006-2007), New Zealand Academy of Sport athletes (2002-2010), MotorSport New Zealand Academy (2002-2014), and IRB Sevens Elite Referees Squad (2014).